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JFB 2017 Letters to OffBeat Magazine

Charlie Sims He was a “minister” in the purest sense of the word. He and Donna served out the secrets of life: love, happiness, music, kind words, and physical sustenance… […]

Letters to the Editor

Billie Davies Billie Davies and her team of jazztronauts lace together a bittersweet story of adventure on the boulevard of broken dreams that is as much dripping in nostalgia as […]

Letters to the Editor

Best of the Beat I wanted to take a moment to thank you [Jan Ramsey, OffBeat] for all the hard work you do for the music community year after year. […]

Letters to the Editor

Crescent City Connection I have been an OffBeat subscriber for many, many years. I used to live in New Orleans and in Slidell in the mid-’70s and early ’80s. Worked […]

Letters to the Editor

True Believer It feels good to be recognized and acknowledged by OffBeat, [True Believers by Laura DeFazio, November 2016] especially as I begin such an important musical journey. This new […]

December 2016 Letters to the Editor

Be Different. He Is. The following letters are in response to Sam D’Arcangelo’s news post about Bob Dylan being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The fact Dylan is now […]

November 2016 Letters to Offbeat

Radiators Collection I’ve been spending the past couple of months wading through many boxes of Camile’s [Boudin] and my memorabilia. I’m now in the last sorting stage, editing down our […]

October 2016 Letters to OffBeat

Too Many Festivals? The following letters are in response to Jan Ramsey’s blog post, “Spread Too Thin?” questioning if we have enough population capacity to make every single festival successful. […]

September 2016 Letters to OffBeat

Follow Your NOLA The following letter is in response to Sam D’Arcangelo’s web post, “’Follow Your NOLA’ Takes Over a New York City Subway Station,” talking about the New Orleans […]

August 2016 Letters to OffBeat

Tbone Seeing y’all play [Treme Funk: Corey Henry’s Universe, July 2016] in Missoula, Montana, was such a treat. I’ve picked up the Tbone after 50 years and am working on […]